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Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (89 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
Français
Description
When the teenage wife of a pawnbroker suddenly and inexplicably commits suicide, her distraught husband tries to understand what could have led to such a desperate act.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The well ordered life off Jeanne, a high school philosophy teacher, suddenly spins into disorder when a young stranger she meets at a party involves her in a devilish scheme.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
Français
Description
A famed French novelist is found, breathless and disoriented, in a small provincial town and is interrogated about the identity of a mutilated murder victim.
Series
Criterion collection volume 306
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nighclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (94 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
Français
Description
Since childhood, Thomas Van Hasebroeck (Michel Bouquet) has been consumed by a nagging belief: that he was switched at birth with the rich neighbor's boy who enjoyed the life Thomas should have led. Now, after sixty years, Thomas wants revenge.
9) Pickpocket
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Oliver is working as a carpentry instructor in a French suburb. He develops an obsession with a new student and offers him friendship and advice with a frightening lack of affection. Oliver's connection to the boy is slowly and painfully revealed.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When an innocent prank goes wrong, it becomes the definitive moment in a man's life. A forged 500 franc note is accidentally passed to an unsuspecting young man. Ignorant of its origins, he tries to use the bill but is apprehended for forgery.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A stop-motion animated film about toys come to life, based on the Belgian television series with the same title. Cowboy and Indian give Horse a homemade brick barbecue for his birthday, but too many bricks arrive and they destroy their house. Surreal adventures follow as the trio travels to the center of the earth, treks across frozen tundra, and discovers a parallel underwater universe where dishonest creatures live. With panic a permanent feature...
13) Lemming
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"The story of a troubled relationship festering between two couples: young Alain Getty, a home automation engineer, and his wife, sweet Bénédicte ; and middle-aged André, Alain's boss, who is married to the mysterious Alice. Their encounter does not leave the young couple's harmony unscathed. The discovery of a mysterious rodent's corpse blocking the waste pipe of their kitchen sink does nothing to help and portends the bursting of irrationality...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The true story of a world famous castrato in the 18th century. With charisma, talent, drive and success, Farinelli had everything: money, talent, fame, women, and the voice of an angel. He becomes obsessed with earning the respect of his brother's rival, the composer Handel.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 102, 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Le gitan: A long-suffering gypsy sets out to steal from the rich to provide sustenance to his fellow gypsies, all of them desperate and treated like trash by French society. Constatly outwitting the authorities as he moves deftly from place to place with the help of accomplices, this king of beggars ultimately cannot break the chain of displacement.
Notre histoire: A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Based on the true story of Adele Hugo's obsessive love affair which led her to run away from home to follow her womanizing lover across an ocean to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Series
Language
Français
Formats
Description
In this elegant crime drama, a mysterious stranger is a lone passenger disembarking from a train in a sleepy French village. His name is Milan, a criminal intent on knocking over the local bank. Upon his arrival, he is befriended by Manesquier, a retired poetry teacher. Through their unexpected friendship, both men come to realize they have been allowed to look back on their lives complete with dashed hopes and unfulfilled dreams. At the same time,...
18) L'enfance nue
Series
Criterion collection volume 534
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
François is a foster child on the cusp of his teens. Shuttled from one home to another, his behavior grows increasingly erratic, and his bonds with his surrogate parents perennially fraught.
19) Pickpocket
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
20) Rosetta
Series
Criterion collection volume 621
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense verite drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It's a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathic way in which the directors render Rosetta's desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on her shoulder throughout.
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